Events in Cornwall: August - December 2008

1st

(Celtic Season)

4th - 10th

Fistral Beach, Newquay

6th

Adit Car Park Grid Ref. SX 379 714 - Tel. 01872 323468 to reserve your place

9th - 16th

Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week 2008 aims to provide top level competitive racing in a fun atmosphere, using a variety of courses during the week. Enjoy the Regatta teas, prize-givings and entertainment at a different host club each day. Many competitors combine the racing with their annual family holiday. Falmouth town also provides a packed Shoreside entertainment programme all week for crews and families.
What better place to come – Cornwall and the fantastic sailing waters of the Fal. Be part of it……!

9th - 17th

Explore Cornwall's Mining Heritage at the mining villages of St. Day, Troon, Carnkie, Carharrack and Portreath in the Camborne-Redruth-St Day Mining District.
For more information please telephone 01209 820446.

10th

Meet at the Cornwall Wildlife Boat, West Looe - Tel. 07917 765581 to book

12th

Museum & Shipwreck Centre, Charlestown - Tel. 01726 73882

13th

Bodmin Beacon Nature Reserve car park - Tel. 01840 779084 to book

17th - 23rd

Fowey is a quiet town on the south coast of Cornwall, but for one week every August it plays host to hundreds of visitors who flock to see Fowey Royal Regatta.
Fowey Royal Regatta is held every August & is one of Britain’s premier sailing events. However, not all the action takes place on the water; there’s plenty to keep landlubbers entertained, from children’s entertainment to the Red Arrows. Most of these events are free, & those that it is necessary to charge for are not inhibitive.
The Regatta has a long & proud history, having attracted visitors including Queen Victoria, Prince Albert & Queen Elizabeth II.

Accommodation and things to do in Fowey

17th

Trevigue car park. Grid Ref. SX 137 954 - Tel. 01840 230730 to book

22nd

Ponts Mill car park. Grid ref. SX 072 562 - Tel. 01726 850072 for information

23rd - 25th

At Bray Farm, No-Mans-Land, near Looe on Sat. - Mon. 25th - 27th August 2008. Events include: Digger Driving Competition, Live Music, Clay Pigeon Shooting, Vintage Cars, Motorcycles, Tractors, Harvesting Demonstration, Stationary Engines, Commercial Vehicles, Military Vehicles, Trade Stands, Craft Tent, Licensed Bar, Ferret Racing and Falconry Display.
Something for everyone: Admission: Adults £3.50, Child £1.50.

27th

A One-Day Digital Photography Workshop in Cornwall held at the Lost Gardens of Heligan:- There are some amazing subjects for photographers at Heligan.
Heligan, seat of the Tremayne family for more than 400 years, is one of the most mysterious estates in England. At the end of the nineteenth century its thousand acres were at their zenith, but only a few years after the Great War of 1914 bramble and ivy were already drawing a green veil over this sleeping beauty.

29th - 30th

Music Festival at St. Agnes:
Including - Gossip The Go! Team , Santogold, Black Lips, Lightspeed Champion Alphabeat, Chromeo, Robots in Disguise, Emmy the Great, The Complete Stone Roses, John Otway, Jamie Woon, Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee, Leon-Jean-Marie, DJ Andy Smith, The Clik Clik, Natty, Dead Kids, The Shoes, Primary 1, and The Heavy.

30th

Stunning Subjects for Photography: Dating back to 1485, the Edgecumbe family home, now a National Trust property, is one of the least altered medieval houses in the country. Surrounded by formal gardens, the extensive grounds also include a dovecote and stewpond, a Victorian summerhouse, an 18th century tower, and a richly planted valley garden that reaches all the way to the banks of the River Tamar, where buildings at the Quay house a tearoom and part of the National Maritime museum.

1st - 7th

The third homecoming for descendants of the Cornish diaspora, will be held at Looe in South Cornwall.
The festival will include:-
A Bishop Trelawny tour to nearby Pelynt; Extensive family history research facilities; Made in Cornwall craft and food fair and of course the Cornish Gorsedd.
There will be an opportunity to meet with Sir John Trelawny - direct descendant of Bishop Trelawny - at a reading of his novel, 'The Islanders', and on a visit to Looe Island. For more information please contact Looe Tourist Information Centre.

Accommodation and things to do in Looe

6th

Gorseth Kernow exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall:
To promote the study of literature, art, music and history; to promote the study and use of the Cornish language; to maintain and nurture links with other Celtic cultures; to provide a forum and encouragement to all who work to further these aims.
Held this year at Looe.

Accommodation and things to do in Looe

6th - 20th

Music, Dance, Performance Workshops, and so much more at the fabulous St. Ives September Festival.
Artists include: Seth Lakeman, Nerina Pallot, Show of Hands, The Bootleg Beatles, The Blues Band and Colin (Inspector Morse) Dexter.

Accommodation and things to do in St Ives

10th - 13th

Falmouth to Madeira

Accommodation and things to do in Falmouth

19th

On the 19th of September there is going to be a 1920s themed ball in aid of local cancer care for the Lowen Ward, Treliske. Tickets are priced at £26 and the night includes live jazz music, a casino, buffet, and a charity auction featuring donations by flybe, cargo, skinners brewery, and many more. The ball is being held at the Penmere Manor Hotel, Falmouth, and is set to begin at 7:30.

22nd

Data from the National Maritime Museum

26th - 28th

Truro

1st

Tintagel

15th - 19th

30th Festival of the Celts in Cornwall held at the Ponsmere Hotel, Perranporth on 15th to 19th October 2008.
Celebrating Cornwall's distinctive heritage of traditional music, dance, songs, story telling and our links with Brittany, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales.

24th

Acorn Theatre, Penzance. Tel: 01736 330201

Accommodation and things to do in Penzance

25th - 26th

St Johns Hall, Penzance. Tel: 01736 330201

26th

(Clocks go back at 1am GMT)

31st

1st

Pronounced Sowin, the Festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is generally regarded as 'The Celtic New Year'.
The same word was used for a month in the ancient Celtic calendar, in particular the first three nights of this month, with the festival marking the end of the summer season and the end of the harvest. A modernized version of this festival continues today in some of the traditions of the Catholic All Souls' Day, the secular Halloween, and in folk practices of Samhain itself in the Celtic Nations and the Irish and Scottish diasporas. It is also observed by various types of Neopagans.
Info from Wikipedia.

9th - 9th Dec

Celebrating Food and Drink in Looe and South East Cornwall, Taste South East Cornwall is centred around the picturesque fishing ports of Looe and Polperro, whose reputation for local food and fine dining has exploded onto the Cornish gastro-map since Taste was first staged in 2005.

Taste South East Cornwall 2008 includes foodie events throughout the year, culminating in the fourth Taste South East Cornwall Festival of Food & Drink.

Accommodation and things to do in Looe

10th - 15th

The Festival was re-founded in 1970, following on from the original Camborne Wesley Eisteddfod. The Festival is held each November (usually the second or third week) and runs from Monday morning through to Saturday evening.
Competitors, who must be amateur (i.e. who do not derive their main source of income from the discipline being entered), compete in classes of an appropriate standard and are assessed and marked by a professional adjudicator, who has been specially selected to give helpful advice to improve the performances.

Accommodation and things to do in Camborne

10th - 14th

Lemon Quay Piazza, Truro

Accommodation and things to do in Truro

13th

Mousehole

21st

Data from the National Maritime Museum

23rd

Mousehole